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Daily (gp Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, No. 55 Los An9eles' California Tuesday, December 10, 1974
WOULD YOU BUY A USED CHRISTMAS TREE FROM THIS MAN?—Loren Ledin, Daily Tro/an sports editor, was one of many members of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists, participating in the group's Christmas tree sale Monday. The trees will continue to be sold near Tommy Trojan, the Women's Complex and Webb Towers during noon hours today and Wednesday. DT photo by Mikito Snerd._
Five suits filed against County-USC hospital
BY TOM ROSA
Five damage suits totaling $10 million have been filed against the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center by women who claim they were sterilized at the medical center without proper consent.
However, because the relationship between the center and USC is just a teaching one, the university is not involved in the suits.
The five women, ranging in age from 20 through 40. who are seeking $2 million each, said their signatures on consent forms were sought while they were in pain and under sedation immediately prior to undergoing childbirth by caesarean section in 1972 and 1973.
The actions were believed to be the first medical malpractice suits in the country filed against a hospital for alleged sterilization abuses.
The women s law suits, a re-
Actresses film here
Barbara Eden and Barbara Feldon were on campus Monday being photographed for advertisements for an ABC Movie of the Week entitled The Switch.
The film was made by Universal and is expected to air on Jan. 7.
The plot concerns the adventures and misadventures of two women who attended college together in 1963.
Both had definite goals.
One longed for success in big business, and the other wanted to be a housewife. But each ends up leading the life the other had wanted.
The women meet by chance and decide to switch roles for a week to see what their lives might have been like.
Bruce Johnson, the producer and a 1962 graduate of USC. said he had chosen the university for the setting because he knew where the buildings were.
_J
port by a former doctor at the medical center and an expose in the Los Angeles Times on the sterilization procedures at the center prompted federal, state and local officials to insure enforcement of the Department of Health. Education and Welfare guidelines on sterilization.
These guidelines were designed to protect indigent patients from possible voluntary sterilization abuses at some of the nation’s most prestigious hospitals.
Among the protections in ihe guidelines that went into effect last April 18 were requirements that candidates for surgical sterilization be:
• Formally advised before giving his or her written consent to the operation that welfare checks or child support payments cannot be cut off should the patient decide not to be sterilized:
• Provably supplied with detailed information about the surgical procedures, its attendant risks and discomforts and the fact that the operation must be considered permanent:
• Provably counseled on forms of birth control other than sterilization, such as pills, intrauterine devices and diaphragms.
These guidelines were implemented in order to give the patient enough information before surgery to insure that his or her choice to be sterilized had been made under “legally effective informed consent.”
The guidelines had apparently been unknown to the doctors at the center because the guidelines had not been transmitted by Medi-Cal headquarters in Sacramento to the physicians and hospitals in the states covered by them.
, Dr. Bernard Rosenfield. a former intern at County-USC and now a physician-researcher. said it was the absence of such informed consent procedures that led thousands of women across the country—most of them from low-income minority groups—to become victims of sterilization abuses.
Rosenfield charged that a sig
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Spring PAC seats up for election
Elections will be held today and Wednesday for 12 undergraduate representatives to the Student Caucus of the President's Advisory Council.
Students can vote from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. by Tommy Trojan, and from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. by Founders Hall and in Fagg Park.
The seats available include six commuter seats, three seats representing the residence halls and three seats for the Row.
The 12 students elected will serve until the end ofthe spring semester, when all 33 student seats on the council will be up for election.
Today's Campus section includes the ballot statements of the candidates who submitted them, as well as general information about the caucus and the election.
Security officer shot at,
youth beaten after dance
BV KEVIN McKENNA
Associate Editor
Shots were fired at a Campus Security officer by an unknown assailant early Sunday morning as the officer stood at the corner of University Avenue and Childs Way.
The incident occurred following a public dance in the Trojan Grill, which was also marred by violence.
The officer was unharmed No suspects were apprehended.
The officer. Dan West, was in the vicinity because Campus Security and Los Angeles Police Department officers had been called to the Grill minutes earlier to break up a fight at a dance sponsored by the Minority Affairs Council of Scientists.
Shortly after the shots were fired at West, a black youth who had just left the dance was
In the aftermath of the violence-marred dance in the Trojan Grill on Saturday night, university officials announced Monday the cancellation of all public campus dances until further notice.
A statement issued by Paul Moore, director of student activities, said the dances will be cancelled until a review of procedures for dance administration is completed. Only certain specified dances will be exempt from the order.
The action was taken after Campus Security and police officials said they could no longer assure the safety of students attending the dances.
“There won’t be any more dances, even if I have to lock the building with chains myself,” said John Lechner. director of Campus Security and Parking Operations. “We can’t provide enough security for that size crowd.”
Lechner also referred to other incidents that have taken place in recent weeks as the number of
beaten and robbed by a group of two to four blacks at 36th Place and McClintock Avenue.
Fifteen units from the Los Angeles Police Department's Southwest Division were called to the scene after West radioed for help as he crouched behind a security car. The police sealed off the campus and searched vehicles leaving the area
One arrest was made. Robert Lee Bridges. 20. was taken into custody by Los Angeles Police for battery on a police officer during an incident which arose when he resisted a search ofhis car by police.
However, no arrests were made in connection with either the shooting or the robbery-assault. A suspect in the shooting was described by Campus Security as “a huge black man” driving a green Chevrolet.
public dances on campus has swelled.
“If incidents likethisare going to keep happening, we are going to take equally harsh measures,” he said. “Ever since they started having dances here, there have been incidental disturbances, such as cars racing up and dow n the streets.”
One ofthe major causes ofthe incidents has been nonstudents the dances have attracted from the surrounding community. Police say gang violence has been one result.
A spokesperson in the Student Activities Office blamed “loose control of the administrative end’’ ofthe dances for attracting nonstudents to the dances.
“Paul (Moore) was quite insistent that student IDs be checked, but no one's sure whether they were or not.” the spokesperson said.
Police first arrived at the Grill at about midnight Saturday to inspect whether adequate crowd-control measures were being enforced.
There were no problems at that time, but a fight broke out at about 12:20 a.m. Betty Chapman, a supervisor at the Grill, called Campus Security and one security officer and two policemen responded.
The fight was broken up. mostly through the efforts of other guests at the dance. John Lechner. director of Campus Security and Parking Operations. said. After the fight, about half of the 600 guests at the dance decided to leave, anticipating more violence.
It was while a crowd was exiting the Commons area onto Childs Way that the shots were fired at West, who took cover behind his vehicle and radioed for help from other officers.
West was unable to determine anything about who shot at him. but was convinced the shots were aimed at him and were fired by someone leaving the Commons.
Police set up a command post outside Founders Hall and proceeded to seal off the campus. All cars were inspected for weapons as they left, and about 30 people were searched individually for weapons or spent cartridges. None were found.
The robbery-assault victim was approached by a blackyouth as he was w alking to his car from the dance. The suspect demanded that the victim give up his leather jackct. and when he resisted, he was jumped on and his jacket was taken by the suspect while other suspects beat him.
The suspects fled when a Campus Security car approached. The victim crawled on his knees to a security officer for help. There was no report Monday on his condition.
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Campus dances are banned after incident

Daily (gp Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, No. 55 Los An9eles' California Tuesday, December 10, 1974
WOULD YOU BUY A USED CHRISTMAS TREE FROM THIS MAN?—Loren Ledin, Daily Tro/an sports editor, was one of many members of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists, participating in the group's Christmas tree sale Monday. The trees will continue to be sold near Tommy Trojan, the Women's Complex and Webb Towers during noon hours today and Wednesday. DT photo by Mikito Snerd._
Five suits filed against County-USC hospital
BY TOM ROSA
Five damage suits totaling $10 million have been filed against the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center by women who claim they were sterilized at the medical center without proper consent.
However, because the relationship between the center and USC is just a teaching one, the university is not involved in the suits.
The five women, ranging in age from 20 through 40. who are seeking $2 million each, said their signatures on consent forms were sought while they were in pain and under sedation immediately prior to undergoing childbirth by caesarean section in 1972 and 1973.
The actions were believed to be the first medical malpractice suits in the country filed against a hospital for alleged sterilization abuses.
The women s law suits, a re-
Actresses film here
Barbara Eden and Barbara Feldon were on campus Monday being photographed for advertisements for an ABC Movie of the Week entitled The Switch.
The film was made by Universal and is expected to air on Jan. 7.
The plot concerns the adventures and misadventures of two women who attended college together in 1963.
Both had definite goals.
One longed for success in big business, and the other wanted to be a housewife. But each ends up leading the life the other had wanted.
The women meet by chance and decide to switch roles for a week to see what their lives might have been like.
Bruce Johnson, the producer and a 1962 graduate of USC. said he had chosen the university for the setting because he knew where the buildings were.
_J
port by a former doctor at the medical center and an expose in the Los Angeles Times on the sterilization procedures at the center prompted federal, state and local officials to insure enforcement of the Department of Health. Education and Welfare guidelines on sterilization.
These guidelines were designed to protect indigent patients from possible voluntary sterilization abuses at some of the nation’s most prestigious hospitals.
Among the protections in ihe guidelines that went into effect last April 18 were requirements that candidates for surgical sterilization be:
• Formally advised before giving his or her written consent to the operation that welfare checks or child support payments cannot be cut off should the patient decide not to be sterilized:
• Provably supplied with detailed information about the surgical procedures, its attendant risks and discomforts and the fact that the operation must be considered permanent:
• Provably counseled on forms of birth control other than sterilization, such as pills, intrauterine devices and diaphragms.
These guidelines were implemented in order to give the patient enough information before surgery to insure that his or her choice to be sterilized had been made under “legally effective informed consent.”
The guidelines had apparently been unknown to the doctors at the center because the guidelines had not been transmitted by Medi-Cal headquarters in Sacramento to the physicians and hospitals in the states covered by them.
, Dr. Bernard Rosenfield. a former intern at County-USC and now a physician-researcher. said it was the absence of such informed consent procedures that led thousands of women across the country—most of them from low-income minority groups—to become victims of sterilization abuses.
Rosenfield charged that a sig
(Continued on page 3)
Spring PAC seats up for election
Elections will be held today and Wednesday for 12 undergraduate representatives to the Student Caucus of the President's Advisory Council.
Students can vote from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. by Tommy Trojan, and from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. by Founders Hall and in Fagg Park.
The seats available include six commuter seats, three seats representing the residence halls and three seats for the Row.
The 12 students elected will serve until the end ofthe spring semester, when all 33 student seats on the council will be up for election.
Today's Campus section includes the ballot statements of the candidates who submitted them, as well as general information about the caucus and the election.
Security officer shot at,
youth beaten after dance
BV KEVIN McKENNA
Associate Editor
Shots were fired at a Campus Security officer by an unknown assailant early Sunday morning as the officer stood at the corner of University Avenue and Childs Way.
The incident occurred following a public dance in the Trojan Grill, which was also marred by violence.
The officer was unharmed No suspects were apprehended.
The officer. Dan West, was in the vicinity because Campus Security and Los Angeles Police Department officers had been called to the Grill minutes earlier to break up a fight at a dance sponsored by the Minority Affairs Council of Scientists.
Shortly after the shots were fired at West, a black youth who had just left the dance was
In the aftermath of the violence-marred dance in the Trojan Grill on Saturday night, university officials announced Monday the cancellation of all public campus dances until further notice.
A statement issued by Paul Moore, director of student activities, said the dances will be cancelled until a review of procedures for dance administration is completed. Only certain specified dances will be exempt from the order.
The action was taken after Campus Security and police officials said they could no longer assure the safety of students attending the dances.
“There won’t be any more dances, even if I have to lock the building with chains myself,” said John Lechner. director of Campus Security and Parking Operations. “We can’t provide enough security for that size crowd.”
Lechner also referred to other incidents that have taken place in recent weeks as the number of
beaten and robbed by a group of two to four blacks at 36th Place and McClintock Avenue.
Fifteen units from the Los Angeles Police Department's Southwest Division were called to the scene after West radioed for help as he crouched behind a security car. The police sealed off the campus and searched vehicles leaving the area
One arrest was made. Robert Lee Bridges. 20. was taken into custody by Los Angeles Police for battery on a police officer during an incident which arose when he resisted a search ofhis car by police.
However, no arrests were made in connection with either the shooting or the robbery-assault. A suspect in the shooting was described by Campus Security as “a huge black man” driving a green Chevrolet.
public dances on campus has swelled.
“If incidents likethisare going to keep happening, we are going to take equally harsh measures,” he said. “Ever since they started having dances here, there have been incidental disturbances, such as cars racing up and dow n the streets.”
One ofthe major causes ofthe incidents has been nonstudents the dances have attracted from the surrounding community. Police say gang violence has been one result.
A spokesperson in the Student Activities Office blamed “loose control of the administrative end’’ ofthe dances for attracting nonstudents to the dances.
“Paul (Moore) was quite insistent that student IDs be checked, but no one's sure whether they were or not.” the spokesperson said.
Police first arrived at the Grill at about midnight Saturday to inspect whether adequate crowd-control measures were being enforced.
There were no problems at that time, but a fight broke out at about 12:20 a.m. Betty Chapman, a supervisor at the Grill, called Campus Security and one security officer and two policemen responded.
The fight was broken up. mostly through the efforts of other guests at the dance. John Lechner. director of Campus Security and Parking Operations. said. After the fight, about half of the 600 guests at the dance decided to leave, anticipating more violence.
It was while a crowd was exiting the Commons area onto Childs Way that the shots were fired at West, who took cover behind his vehicle and radioed for help from other officers.
West was unable to determine anything about who shot at him. but was convinced the shots were aimed at him and were fired by someone leaving the Commons.
Police set up a command post outside Founders Hall and proceeded to seal off the campus. All cars were inspected for weapons as they left, and about 30 people were searched individually for weapons or spent cartridges. None were found.
The robbery-assault victim was approached by a blackyouth as he was w alking to his car from the dance. The suspect demanded that the victim give up his leather jackct. and when he resisted, he was jumped on and his jacket was taken by the suspect while other suspects beat him.
The suspects fled when a Campus Security car approached. The victim crawled on his knees to a security officer for help. There was no report Monday on his condition.
fContinued on page 3)
Campus dances are banned after incident